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| Alla dessa författare som skriver om sin barndom! Milde Gud, om jag skrev om min skulle du inte vilja sitta i samma rum som jag. | Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) |
| Barndomen är en lycklig tid - i efterhand. | Anna Jameson (1794-1860) |
| Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never | Anna Jameson (1794-1860) |
| When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. | Brian W. Aldiss (1925-) |
| There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. | Deepak Chopra (1947-) |
| Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains... | Diane Ackerman (1948-) |
| There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. | Elizabeth Lawrence |
| He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. | Herbert Gold |
| My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell. | Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) |
| Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. | Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) |
| Childhood is a promise that is never kept | Ken Hill (1937-) |
| There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility. | Maria Callas (1923-1977) |
| Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. | Ned Rorem (1923-) |
| Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. | Richard Zera |
| A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood | Sam Ewing |
| I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing-without the traditional interruption of academic training. | Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) |
| One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. | Thomas Arnold (1795-) |
| It is never too late to have a happy childhood | Tom Robbins (1936-) |
| Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next. | Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) |
| I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. | Edna O'Brien (1932-) |
| Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it. | George F. Will (1941-) |
| Childhood is a short season. | Helen Hayes (1900-1993) |
| A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality | Pindar |
| We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it." | Sydney J. Harris (1917-) |
| If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. | Tom Stoppard (1937-) |
| I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports. | Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994) |
| There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. | Elizabeth Lawrence |
| For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything. | Deepak Chopra (1947-) |
| There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. | Deepak Chopra (1947-) |
| Childhood is a promise that is never kept | Ken Hill (1937-) |
| A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it." | Sydney J. Harris (1917-) |
| My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell. | Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) |
| Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose | Garrison Keillor (1942-) |
| We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected. | Ben Okri (1959-) |
| It is never too late to have a happy childhood | Tom Robbins (1936-) |
| I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask. I was not afraid to ask. | Drew Barrymore (1975-) |
| I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. | Tom Stoppard (1937-) |
| Childhood is the sleep of reason. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. | Bill Cosby (1937-) |
| I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves. | Ellen deGeneres (1958-) |
| Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) |
| There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. | Cleveland Amory (1917-1998) |
| Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age / The child is grown, and puts away childish things. / Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. / Nobody that matters, that is. | Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) |
| Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. | John Updike (1932-) |
| The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. | Richard Zera |
| It's amazing. It is like yesterday when I was still watching the stars of Brazilian football on TV, and I am one of them now. I miss my childhood. I left my family at 15 and then left Brazil for Holland when I was 17. | Ronaldo (1976-) |
| A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. | Sidonie Gabrielle |
| You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |